Travis Barker and Dj AM, Plane Crash

Our hearts and thoughts are with Travis and AM, and their families. Not to be forgoten are the 4 who lost their lives in this awful crash.

Bape is the new Land's End

Bape is now doing custom monograming on your Dad's work shirts.

StairCASE

Shanghai-based artist Danny Kuo created the StairCASE, a bookcase where the shelves slide out to become a stairwell. I think this is sick, I need this for DVD's.

Put down your G-Shock for a minute.

I'm really liking the dive watches that have been coming out recently. I think the use of color and design have made these fun yet elegant. Check out the lines from brands like Nixon, Welder, & U-Boat. If you have money to burn check out Volna, Corum, & Porsche Design.

Google "Android"

Google was in London this morning showing off it's new Android smartphone platform. I am personally super excited for the release of Android, I will be very interested to see what developers will be able to come up with for this unit. That being said I'm not to thrilled with the design of the HTC "Dream". In the leaked videos the unit looked cheap and cumbersome, however the one shown today in London looked much more elegant. Hopefully, this will be the release unit.

Winter is Coming

Get your boots out. Above are new styles from Bape, Madfoot, and Redwing. It's nice to see Men's footwear/Streetwear tone down a bit.

Damien Hirst's "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever

Despite the current economic landscape Damien Hirst had a record breaking day. Hirst had put up for auction 223 works and came away with a grand total of $127.2 million. With this sale Hirst made headlines by circumventing the traditional gallery method and proceeding straight to auction. The auction was held by Sotheby’s. I'm still not sure what I feel about Hirst's work, but he sure seems to know how to sell it.

Understanding the Candidates

The Following is an email forward that I received, and thought went a long way to sum up the candidates.

*If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic,different."**Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers -- a quintessential Americanstory.**If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.**Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track -- you're a maverick.**Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.**Attend five different small colleges before graduating, you're wellgrounded.**If you spend three years as a brilliant community organizer, become thefirst black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a constitutional law professor, spend eight years as a state senator representing a district with more than 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's HealthandHuman Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.**If your total resume is: local weather girl, four years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer than 7,000 people, 20 monthsas the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualifiedto become the country's second highest ranking executive.**If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising two beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.**If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.**If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.**If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.**If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner-city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.**If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude," with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from theUSA, your family is extremely admirable.**OK, much clearer now.*

Nigo's Home

I am always amazed every time I see something about Nigo's home. His collections are really an incredible archive of pop culture. I would love to see a full documentary on his home and collections.

Welcome

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